Smead Aerospace Faculty/Staff News - Aug. 27

Iain Boyd was interviewed by ScienceNews for a long-form article on strange lights in the night sky and efforts to use science to determine fact from fiction.

PhD student Anant Telikicherla (Advisor: Bob Marshall) won 1st place in the SmallSat student paper competition this month in Logan, Utah. His paper, entitled "Miniaturized scintillation based detector for characterizing energetic electron precipitation", was based on his MS thesis research at the University of Alberta.

Looking for a way to develop your teaching and science communication skills? Want to do fun science experiments after school with kids or advise high school students on physics and engineering projects? Please consider joining the PISEC community!

Partnerships for Informal Science Education in the Community (PISEC) is the longstanding outreach program run by JILA and the Physics Department. We are a community partnership-based outreach program that brings CU volunteers to local schools weekly throughout the semester to engage with students around fun, inquiry-based science activities and engineering projects. We work with students from groups underrepresented in STEM and seek to cultivate interest and help students develop a sense of themselves as scientists. 

 

As a PI, faculty member, and overall leader on campus we hope you consider joining the STEM Routes’ Uplift research program for the year 2024-2025. Goals of Uplift:

• To provide a student’s first research experience.
• To provide funds for the student’s research experience, so as to not ostracize under-represented groups who need to work for income to support themselves or their families.
• To provide mentorship and a sense of belonging.

Students' stipends are funded by the Packard foundation, CU Boulder College of Arts and Sciences, and by some incredibly generous labs on campus that match funding.

Application Deadline: September 25, 2024 at 5PM MST